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A Case Study on the Lifelong Educational Meaning of Small Library Movement
Journal of Lifelong Learning Society
Abbr :
JLLS
2011, 7(2), pp.175-202
Publisher : Institute of Distance Education
Research Area : Education
2011, 7(2), pp.175-202
Publisher : Institute of Distance Education
Research Area : Education
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Small libraries are some educational spaces operated by spontaneous participation of school parents who are interested in village education. They find out new movement that aims for local educational community. We believe that the small library in village is the principal place of lifelong learning for residents to study each other on the community problem solving. But it could not draw attention in the study on the field of lifelong education in the meantime. Therefore this study tried to find out the meaning of lifelong education of the small library activities by analyzing a case of Alzzam Village Library in the poor urban area. The village library could be divided into three characteristics focused on the aspect of activities of participating members, 1) the ideology and activity method, 2) the aspect of group study and 3) extendability of activities. It is the base of community education and sets regional publicness as principal ideology. And on the foundation of spontaneous participation and reciprocal relation of residents, activities take place. Their activities are connected to community thought and formation of identity of the small library activities. In this study, as a lifelong educational meaning of Alzzam Library, first, the members who participate in small library movement came to be able to do self-awareness as principal agent of lifelong learning and turn out local education experts. In addition, their learning appeared to establish the foundation of formation of life-oriented village educational community through social practices beyond the concept learning.
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